AP – Ireland’s average temperature has been rising at twice the global rate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becoming wetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, a government-funded report said Wednesday.
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We?ve written plenty about the growing biofuel market and the rising concern over the sustainability of corn or wheat ethanol and soy biodiesel production. Here?s an A to Z of alternative materials and innovative processes that can turn that biomass into fuel. From milk-based ethanol, to termite intestines that help make biofuels, check out these 26 sources.
Apples: Fructose, the sugar found in apples and other fruit, can be converted into a fuel contains more energy than ethanol, say scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The fuel is called dimethylfuran or DMF, and it supposedly has a 40 percent greater energy density than ethanol.
Beer: Researchers at The University of Abertay Dundee?s School of Contemporary Sciences are investigating ways to turn waste residues from beer and whiskey making processes into biofuels. Meanwhile, the New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, teamed up with Solix Biofuels to make use of the waste CO2 from the booze.
Continue reading more at: An A to Z of the Biofuel Economy
This video brings out all sorts of emotions, from so sad, to soo funny, too whaa???
Scary, yet beautiful, yet scary…
Once an impregnable forest of huge ice blocks, the Northwest Passage has ? for the first time in recorded history ? become almost completely ice-free and open to navigation. Northwest Passage All But Ice-Free
Yeah, yeah. We’ve all heard this one. Change out your incandescents for the more energy efficient CFLs. But how many of you are actually doing it?
Making the switch to CFLs (compact flourescent lamps) will result in noticeable savings in your electricity bill. Plus, they last longer, produce more light, and emit less heat.
Reuters – A thin winter green carpets Australia’s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation’s food bowl.
Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth
It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades.
Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.
We posted earlier about the coming rush to exploit Arctic oil as the ice melts away; Stephen Colbert covers the issue effectively, noting that a) Bush says the Northwest Passage is international; b) Bush is the leader of the world; and c) therefore it belongs to America. Striking logic. Colbert on the Cold Rush
